Teaching algorithms in high school

Računalništvo in informatika velja za eno najhitreje rastočih področij na svetu. To ima za posledico dejstvo, da postaja enako pomemben tudi način poučevanja tega področja na šolah. V tujini se s tem ukvarjajo že več let, v Sloveniji pa smo šele pred kratkim začeli pogumno korakati po njihovih stopinjah - kot pritiče navadi - nekaj korakov za njimi. Motivacija za magistrsko nalogo je tako izboljšati poučevanje informatike v slovenskih gimnazijah. Za cilj smo si zadali izdelavo in ovrednotenje učnih priprav na temo poučevanja algoritmov za predmet informatika, ki se izvaja v prvem letniku slovenskih splošnih, klasičnih in strokovnih gimnazij. V okviru magistrske naloge smo tako za vsako učno temo raziskali sodobne in učinkovite metode poučevanja le-te ter izdelali šolsko učno pripravo. Nato smo za vsako učno pripravo pripravili in izvedli delavnico. Namen le-teh je merjenje učinkovitosti učnih pristopov iz vidika pisnega preverjanja znanja. S pomočjo ovrednotenja pridobljenih rezultatov smo učne priprave popravili in dopolnili. Za konec smo učne priprave naložili na spletno učilnico projekta NAPOJ, kjer so na voljo vsem učiteljem informatike slovenskih srednjih šol.Computer and information science is one of the fastest growing areas in the world. This results in the fact that the way of teaching this field in schools is equally important. They have been doing this abroad for many years now, but in Slovenia we have only recently started boldly marching on their footsteps - as is tradition - a few steps behind them. Motivation for the master\u27s thesis is thus to improve the teaching of informatics in Slovenian gymnasiums. The aim was to create and evaluate learning materials on the subject of teaching algorithms for the subject of informatics, which is taught in the first year of Slovenian general, classical and professional gymnasiums. In the framework of the master\u27s thesis, for each subject, we studied modern and effective methods of teaching it and produced a school learning preparation. We then prepared and carried out a workshop for each educational preparation. The purpose is to measure the effectiveness of learning approaches from the point of view of written examination of knowledge. With the help of evaluation of the obtained results, the training preparations were additionally improved. In the end, we uploaded learning preparations to the online classroom of the NAPOJ project, where they are available to all teachers of information science in Slovenian secondary schools